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It seems to me, therefore, that the examples cited above, 
and a host of others like them, show that all domestic ani- 
mals have a very strong love of pla@wes and persons. In 
many cases this homesickness is so strong as to lead them 
to desert a new abode, when transferred to it, and attempt 
to return to their former home; but they rarely or never 
do so without having a definite idea in their minds as to 
the route, although it is often very long and circuitous, and 
hence they almost invariably succeed; otherwise, they do 
not try. It is not every animal, by a long list, that deserts 
a new home the moment the chain is loosed; only one, now 
and then. In regard to the method used by them to find 
their way, it appears that they have no special instinct to 
guide them, but depend upon their memory of the route, 
the knowledge of which was acquired by an attentive study 
through the senses of sight, smell, and hearing, possibly by 
communication with other animals. The phenomenon, as 
a whole, affords another very striking example of animal 
intelligence. 
